A performance on globalization with the idea to do exactly as Nike says, just do it!. The result was the performance “Come on Bangladesh, just do it!”

It was performed at The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. In the performance we took the classic piece of the theatre – “Elf Hill, a 19thcentury romance – and outsourced it to Bangladesh. We went to Bangladesh and hired 5 actors, taught them the necessary danish in 6 weeks, flew them to Denmark where they performed “Elf Hill” at The Royal Theatre.

The performance was part staging of the romance, part documentary about the process of outsourcing the play and part interaction with the audience who in the form of drinks, pizzas branding were given the surplus that came from using very cheap actors.

Rather than doing classical well-performed theatre, the point of this performance was to bring the audience and the workers that produce their consumer goods together in the theatre. The just Do It approach gives us the opportunity to make a political interested performance based on curiosity and human interests rather than political slogans.

CREDITS/

Performers: Shamima Shawket Lovely, Shahnazzarin Sattar Reetu, Tomiz Din Mohammed Akbar R, Mohammad Abdul Wadud Shatabdi, Azad Abdul Kalam Pavel, Ellen Nyman, Thomas Corneliussen, Henrik Jandorf

Concept: Jeppe Kristensen, Tue Biering

Directing: Tue Biering

Text: Jeppe Kristensen

Set-design: Nicolaj Spangaa

Directors assistent: Gry Nybo

Lightdesign: Ulrik Gad

Sounddesign: Sebastian Lund

Video: Thomas Carlsen

Stagemanager: Eva Præstiin

Photos: Per Morten Abrahamsen

Produced by The Royal Danish Theatre